Adlai Stevenson: “Sectional animosities, thank God, belong now only to the past.”

Bearing in mind that 'that which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before,' significant events of the past must be known, to the end that we intelligently comprehend the present, and are enabled, even in scant measure, to…

Illinois, in all that constitutes true grandeur in a people, knows no superior among the great sisterhood of States.

As one standing, alas, 'upon the western slope,' let me adjure the young men of this magnificent county--my home for more than half a century--to study thoroughly the history of our own State, and of the grand republic of which it is a…

We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.